Underground art: Stockholm's colourful metro stations – in pictures

Beneath the Swedish capital lies an intricate web of underground train lines. More than 90 of the 100 stations in the 110km tunnel system, sometimes referred to as “the world’s longest art gallery”, have been decorated with paintings, installations, mosaics and sculptures by 150 artists since the 1950s. After spending a couple of weeks exploring arctic Norway and Sweden, London-based travel photographer Conor MacNeill headed underground to capture images of the metro stations. “They’d been famous among the world of photographers for a long time,” he says. “I wanted to see them for myself and take my own approach on the subject. I shot late into the night – I just keep getting carried away exploring.”

Steph Dye

Main image:
Huvudsta metro station on the blue line of the Stockholm Metro.
Photograph: Conor MacNeill

Sat 4 Jun 2016 12.00 EDT
Last modified on Wed 21 Mar 2018 20.02 EDT

Painted blue vines climbing up a white cave in the T-Centralen station.